Berea High School - Prima Luce Yearbook (Berea, NC)

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i B R. I M A LUCE Charles Benjamin Currin Adulescentem verecundum esse decet. Modesty shall accompany youth. Charlie might be considered an artist as well as a mathematician, for he is always studying figures— those seen at the beach. He spends hours elucidating upon his ideal of femi- nine beauty. He lik ewise maintains most boldly that a woman has the right to change her mind, hut admits that she should use discretion occasionally. A nocturnal visit that he was wont to make to a certain residence got his name in Who’s Who in Berea. Those inter- ested might look up his write-up in that publi- cation. Notwithstanding certain vicissitudes of fortune that may in reality be blessings, we tcel that, with, his poise, energy, and per 2- verance, there is a great future before him. Alma Taditiia Daniel Formosa, facies muta commendatio est. Handsome features are a silent recommendation. Nature has given horns to bulls, hoofs to horses, swiftness to hares, the power of swim- ming to fishes, of flying to birds, understand- mg to men. What then does she give to Alma: Beauty, and beauty which can resist shields and spears. She who is beautiful is stronger than iron or fire. There is more strength in her looks than in laws and more power m her tears than in argument. Rhodes Herndon Frazier Experientia docet. Experience teaches. Rhodes is not a shiek, but we think that he thinks he is. But surely he’s quite a ladiesman. In talking to Clide, he said: In the whole course of my life I have never met a female, from the flat-nosed inhabi- taut of West Oxford to the snow-white divine sublimity of Berea without a touch of romance ; repulsiveness cannot conceal it, age cannot extinguish it, vicissitude of fortune cannot change it. I have found it at all times and places like a spring of fresh water starting up even from the flint; cheering the cheerless, softening the insensible, and renovating the withered.” As Rhodes concluded, lie stuck one hand in the arm hole of his vest, and combed his hair with the other.

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SOPHOMORES Dimidium facti, qui coepit, haber Well begun is half done

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. PRIMA LUCE Zelma Hudson Gooch Labor omnia vincit. Labor conquers all things. Dramatis Personae: Her fairy godmother and three fairies. Scene : Her christening. First Fairy: She shall be a classical musi- cian.” (Behold her musical ability.) Second Fairy: “She shall be a scholar superb.” (Visit her classes.) 1 hird Fairy: “She shall have modesty sub- lime.” (Observe her motions and listen to her voice.) James Howard Daniel Sapiens nihil facit invitus. A wise man does nothing by constraint. Howard is a peace-maker. His philosophy is to take life cheerfully ; to have few regrets of the past and few fears of the future. He is quite uncommunicative about his attach- ments to the fair sex. Once, however, he mado a slip. The evening before an event- ful night he was heard singing the lines of an unknown author. This song got his name in Who’s Who in Berea. An extract from it is found on a later page. Hazel Estelle Newton Multis ictibus dejicitur quercus. By repeated bloivs even the oak is felled. Hazel’s whole life is the history of affection. The heart is her world; it is there her desire strives for empire; it is there her ambition to seek hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies in adventure; and she embodies her whole soul in the traffic of affection. [ Page 21 ]